Wire distender.



H. H. KLEIN.

WIRE DISTENDER.

APPLICATION FILED 11113.17, 1914 1,128,688. Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

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WIRE DISTENDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.17,1914.

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HARRY H. KLEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WIRE DISTENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

Application filed February 17, 1914. Serial No. 819,136.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY H. KLEIN, a citizen of the United States, residin in New York city, in the county of New ork and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Di'stenders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is a light distender, to give form to ,and approximately fix' the boundaries of articles made of light fabrics, such as collars, and sashes, bows and rosettes of ribbon.

In the drawings, all the figures are elevations, except Figure 2. Fig. 1 is an elevation of adistender suitable for use in collars and Fig. 2 a partial plan illustrating the curvature it tends to assume. The remaining figures show distenders that give form to both top and bottom of the fabric article and in which some or all of the component wires areformed into a fret, or frets before being twined or twisted together. Fig. 4

1 illustrates a distender with one continuous 25 boundary or lateral wire and two fretted transversals or web wires; Fig. 5 one with two lateral wires and one fretted transversal and Fig. 6 one with two laterals and. two fretted transversals. Figs. 3 and 7 illustrate distenders 'made of two fretted wires with their frets alternating and forming continuous laterals and connecting transversals. In Fig. 3 one boundary is generally arcuate and the distender is a succession of segmental figures.

In the forms illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2- the distender comprises a unital lateral wire 1 and a web or transversal wire 2 twined thereabout and looped, or looped and twisted into transversals 3 extending substantially perpendicularly therefrom forming right hand helices R and left hand helices L and separated by bays l. The transversals have a wide base 5. In the form illustrated in Fig. 1 the transversal wire 2 converges so that the bases 5 are triangular. From the base outwardly the runs of web-wire of each transversal 3 are twisted, separated medially into a loop to form an attachment slot 6, and twisted thence to the terminal eye, 7.

Medially of each bay & the lateral wire 1 and web wire 2 are separated into loops to form attachment slots 8. Such a distender attached to a fabric article causes therein three zones whose flexibility differs in kind I and degree, as follows :a narrow, non-extensible edge zone adjacent to the lateral wire 1; an adjacent, wider zone determined in width and, linearly, in symmetrical relation with the lateral wire 1 by the triangular, bracket-like bases 5, which prevent the Web from racking; and a zone universally flexibly distended by the transversals 3, which can be disposed to cause the fabric, when undisturbed, to keep any desired form or convolutions and when disturbed to tend to return thereto; because the fingers are universally flexible, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. These peculiarities make the device peculiarly adapted to distend bows, rosettes and like ornaments of ribbon. The attachment slots, 6, 8, adapt the dis tenders to be connected with finely finished fabrics, like satin and silk, without the necessity of marring their surfaces with stitches.

Tags, 9, inserted in the slots 6, 8 and cemented to the fabric securely fix the distender in place without showing, or marring the finish; and without possibility of the distender slipping relatively to the tags, which would occur if the tags 9 were simply laid over the wires, instead of being entered into the slots 6, 8. The formation of the web-wire 2 on the lateral 1 causes the distender to tend to assume a cylindrical form when the ends of the distender are drawn toward one another, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

' Figs. 4 to 7 inclusive show distenders for band-like fabric articles, such as belts and closed collars, adapted to give approximate form to both sides thereof, and all made by intertwining fretted transversals with straight laterals or with other fretted transversals.

Fig. 4 shows a distender comprising one continuous lateral 1 and two fretted transversals 2 and 2 forming right hand helices It and left hand helices L, both formed with reverse bends, or frets 20 which alternate so as to cause closed bays 40; a reverse-twist boundary formed of the lateral 1 and succeeding lateral runs of the frets of the transversals, and having loops forming medial attachment slots 8; and an opposite single-continuous-wire boundary formed of lateral runs of said frets; and transversal members 3 formed of the transverse runs of the frets 20 of the transversals 2 and 2 and hawihg lhofjs iferming 'jneaial fittak ment slots 6 and reverse twists to opposite sides thereof. A a I I Fig. 5 shows a distender comprising two opposite continuous laterals l and 1 and one transversal 2 whose transverse runs are the: transverse member's =3", connect the laterals, and with them form closed bays l0; and whose lateral ruiis' Torin revrse tvvist boundaries-with medialattachinent slots 8 '6 shows a distender comprising two continuouslaterals land '1 and two transversafls 2" and Q f rming right hand helices n andlefthand helices'L formed with 'frets combined form closed 'baj's 40, re- 'v'eise twistbouhdaries with loops 'forr'riing jniedial'slotS B a l'ld reverse transverse 'miiib'is3" 1 3131a)- with loojis' formi g medial slots 5.

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